Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most spirited voices in American poetry. The author, editor, and translator of more than 30 volumes, she is best known for her poetry collections Fuel (1998) and You and Yours (2005), and her award-winning anthology of international poems for young people This Same Sky (1992).

The acclaimed author was gassed at Auschwitz at 39 years old. She also wrote novels that were rife with anti-Semitic slurs and stereotypes. Diane Cole reviews “The Némirovsky Question” by Susan Rubin Suleiman.

If you chart the history of dream writing, you get a map of ideas about fate and individual agency through the ages. With a few notable exceptions, the ancients and medieval Europeans saw dreams as divine messages; spaces in which you might learn about the destiny assigned to you. In Native American